As some of you already know, I have been working on recoding one of my earliest games for quite a while now. It is finally starting to take shape and I plan to make updates here as it nears that utopian ideal of "completion".

Is there a way to go back to the main menu from within game? Reason I ask is for "saving ensuring" purposes, and that is the only way to see controls. Or is there another way to see controls wiithin game? (aside from directly looking in the files)

The game actually saves when you die if you select "continue" or "save and quit". As death won't really have a penalty other than being transported to the beginning of what ever area you are in, you are just expected to get yourself killed if you want to save and quit.

As for controls, no there isn't currently anyway to see them mid game.I have thought about it but I'm not sure if it is really necessary.

Scherf wrote:Only negative I noticed was that when I was on the continue or Save/quit screen I dropped from 30 frames down to 2.75 frames.

Really? That's terrible. Could I get the specs of what you are running on (processor, OS, python/pygame version). The game is supposed to run at 60 fps. Occasionally it drops for a single frame if something needs to load but it should never fall to or get stuck at such a low framerate.

I will have to confirm that all my surfaces get converted correctly in that phase. I run on a laptop but it consistently seems to run faster than a lot of other people's setups so it is often hard for me to see the bottlenecks.

Scherf wrote:Only negative I noticed was that when I was on the continue or Save/quit screen I dropped from 30 frames down to 2.75 frames.

Really? That's terrible. Could I get the specs of what you are running on (processor, OS, python/pygame version). The game is supposed to run at 60 fps. Occasionally it drops for a single frame if something needs to load but it should never fall to or get stuck at such a low framerate.

I will have to confirm that all my surfaces get converted correctly in that phase. I run on a laptop but it consistently seems to run faster than a lot of other people's setups so it is often hard for me to see the bottlenecks.

Alright, thanks for the report. There is definitely a slow down there that I will try to address. The fact that it is that dramatic for you is crazy though.

My laptop is also an Intel i5 here, but it is a 2.4GHz rather than 1.8GHz. If I unthrottle the frame rate I get about 120-150 fps during that part of the game. It does slow down though as it is usually over 200.